Tangent: pet licensing data (which basically means dog licenses), particularly names and breeds, is always something I've wanted to analyze for fun, especially

Tangent: pet licensing data (which basically means dog licenses), particularly names and breeds, is always something I've wanted to analyze for fun, especially across jurisdictions, but always ends up being a huge data wrangling exercise. But MuckRock has a nice collection of completed public records requests for cities across America: https://www.muckrock.com/foi/list/?q=pet+license&status=done&user-autocomplete=&agency-autocomplete=&jurisdiction-autocomplete=&projects-autocomplete=&tags-autocomplete=&has_embargo=&has_crowdfund=&minimum_pages=&date_range_0=&date_range_1=&file_types= https://www.muckrock.com/foi/list/?q=pet+license&status=done... For example, Houston's data is a 90MB Excel spreadsheet with more than a million rows, and includes columns like pet color and vaccination dates: https://www.muckrock.com/foi/houston-113/houston-tx-pet-licensing-data-40240/ https://www.muckrock.com/foi/houston-113/houston-tx-pet-lice...